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We study topological properties of one-triplon bands in an extended Shastry-Sutherland model relevant for the frustrated quantum magnet SrCu_2(BO_3)_2. To this end perturbative continuous unitary transformations are applied about the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-05-24 M. Malki , K. P. Schmidt

We investigate chiral superconductivity emerging from parent electronic states with non-uniform Berry curvature, motivated by recent experiments in rhombohedral graphene multilayers. Using the continuum $\lambda_N$-model-a tunable platform…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-05-22 L. David Le Nir , Asimpunya Mitra , Yong Baek Kim

We propose characterization of the three-dimensional topological insulator by using the Chern number for the entanglement Hamiltonian (entanglement Chern number). Here we take the extensive spin partition of the system, that pulls out the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-25 Hiromu Araki , Takahiro Fukui , Yasuhiro Hatsugai

The topological structure of the wavefunctions of particles in periodic potentials is characterized by the Berry curvature $\Omega_{kn}$ whose integral on the Brillouin zone is a topological invariant known as the Chern number. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-21 Lucila Peralta Gavensky , Gonzalo Usaj , C. A. Balseiro

Topological aspects of electron wavefunction play a crucial role in determining the physical properties of materials. Berry curvature and Chern number are used to define the topological structure of electronic bands. While Berry curvature…

We show that the charge conductivity for impurity free multi band electronic systems can be expressed in terms of the diagonal and non-diagonal elements of the Zitterbewegung amplitudes while the Berry curvature and the Chern number is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-11-11 József Cserti , Gyula Dávid

We propose a simple scheme for tomography of band-insulating states in one- and two-dimensional optical lattices with two sublattice states. In particular, the scheme maps out the Berry curvature in the entire Brillouin zone and extracts…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2014-07-29 Philipp Hauke , Maciej Lewenstein , André Eckardt

It is known that three-dimensional magnetic systems with glide symmetry can be characterized by a $Z_2$ topological invariant together with the Chern number associated with the normal vector of the glide plane, and they are expressed in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-14 Heejae Kim , Ken Shiozaki , Shuichi Murakami

Topologically non-trivial states characterized by Berry curvature appear in a number of materials ranging from spin-orbit-coupling driven topological insulators to graphene. In multivalley conductors, such as mono- and bilayer graphene,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-12-20 Sergey Slizovskiy , Edward McCann , Mikito Koshino , Vladimir I. Fal'ko

Chern insulators are band insulators exhibiting a nonzero Hall conductance but preserving the lattice translational symmetry. We conclusively show that a partially filled Chern insulator at 1/3 filling exhibits a fractional quantum Hall…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-03-19 N. Regnault , B. Andrei Bernevig

Charge carriers in magic angle graphene come in eight flavors described by a combination of their spin, valley, and sublattice polarizations. When the inversion and time reversal symmetries are broken by the substrate or by strong…

The Chern vector is a vectorial generalization of the scalar Chern number, being able to characterize the topological phase of three-dimensional (3D) Chern insulators. Such a vectorial generalization extends the applicability of Chern-type…

Local topological markers are used to characterize Chern insulators in the presence of spatial inhomogeneities, such as boundaries and disorder. In this paper, we study the local Chern marker in systems with partial translational symmetry.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-04-14 Maks Repše , Tomaž Rejec , Jernej Mravlje

The Chern number is a crucial topological invariant for distinguishing the phases of Chern insulators. Here we find that for Chern insulators with inversion symmetry, the Chern number alone is insufficient to fully characterize their…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-01 Yu-Hao Wan , Peng-Yi Liu , Qing-Feng Sun

We investigate the many-body ground states in a family of fractionally-filled bands where the Berry curvature fluctuations can be tuned while maintaining ideal quantum geometry. We numerically find that the neutral gap of the fractional…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-12-09 Jingtian Shi , Jennifer Cano , Nicolás Morales-Durán

Quantum anomalous Hall insulators are topologically characterized by non-zero integer Chern numbers, the sign of which depends on the direction of the exchange field that breaks time-reversal symmetry. This feature allows the manipulation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-06 Nezhat Pournaghavi , Carlo M. Canali

The interplay between different degrees of freedom in condensed matter systems engenders a rich variety of emergent phenomena. In particular, fermions with non-trivial quantum geometry can generate Chern-Simons (CS)-like terms in effective…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-07 Swati Chaudhary , Takashi Oka

Chern insulators are band insulators which exhibit a gap in the bulk and gapless excitations in the edge. Detection of Chern insulators is a serious challenge in cold atoms since the Hall transport measurements are technically unrealistic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-09-30 Xiong-Jun Liu , K. T. Law , T. K. Ng , Patrick A. Lee

We propose an alternative formulation of the $Z_2$ topological index for quantum spin Hall systems and band insulators when time reversal invariance is not broken. The index is expressed in terms of the Chern numbers of the bands of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-01 Rahul Roy

We perform an extensive exact diagonalization study of interaction driven insulators in spin- and valley-polarized moir\'{e} flat bands of twisted bilayer graphene aligned with its hexagonal boron nitride substrate. In addition to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-03-05 Patrick Wilhelm , Thomas C. Lang , Andreas M. Läuchli